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people, You may see what it is to be married. And her tone was, You rascal, the money for the eggs, often giving him a crack on the crown. At length it was his good hap to get from her. Night drawing, and Simon not having one penny to help himself, was forced to the best of a bad bargain, resolved to lodge that night in the hog-stye amongst the hogs ; and so next morning in the presence of some of his dearest friends, he begged pardon on his knees of his sweet, kind, and loving wife Margery.
CHAP. VI.
Simon loses his Wife's Pail, and burns out the
bottom of her kettle.
MARGERY being reconciled again, on his humble petition, she charged him to be careful for the future, that he did not offend her as he had done before, which he promised to observe. Then Simon, said she, I am this day going a gossiping, & shall leave you at home to make a fire and hang on the kettle. Yes sweet wife. Now Margery was no sooner gone, but he put on the fire and hung on the kettle. Then taking the pail,
